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The liberal warmonger, the bourgoise reactionary and the mendacious mercenary
Ultra-nationalists of a feather, flock together. Take one reactionary bourgeoisie, mix together some well dodgy intellectual and cultural basis, don't allow to set, then serve up on a layer of instinct and blind prejudice, to the delight of a pack of baying pack of shrieking -racist and misanthropic twits.
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Cayo Lara - Caminando desde Valencia
Cayo Lara Iu Después de 10 días caminando desde Valencia no les dejaron llegar a las puertas del Congreso para entregar su escrito pidiendo que no desahucien a más gente de la vivienda por no poder pagar la abusiva hipoteca con la que unos cuantos se han enriquecido sin piedad. Estamos con su justa reivindicación y con la de las 74.000 personas que los bancos van a desahuciar éste año de sus casas. Mas fuerza a IU es urgente.
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Gay Radicalism
When I was a Welsh kid, growing up in England, there was a lot of very nasty homophobia around. At best, homosexuals were barely tolerated, and were frequently considered a deviancy. My own parents, quite liberal in many aspects, didn't know how to come to terms with homosexuality, never mind what has now become LGBT, and even more, if reports from the USA are to be believed.
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Elections in Iran - More heat than light in the media
From one perspective, it's hard to imagine Ahmadinejad getting more than a handful of votes. Would I vote for him? Good grief no, and not in a month of Sundays. But that isn't the issue is it. If the voting choice and election in this case had been based on the international projection of what Ahmadinejad has supposed to have said, and what he is supposed to be plotting, and that instead of Iranians going to the polls, it was the vote of western critics that mattered the most, then I would agree
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Israel: State of Jews or Jewish State?
I asked you to clarify what you perceive as the difference between a term which is now currently in common usage ie "Jewish state" and a term which I rarely if ever hear used namely " a state of the Jews" but can guess as to what it probably means.
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From Posadas to Lora del Rio
Tomorrow I'm planning on taking the train from Cordoba to Posadas, and then to cycle from Posadas to Lora del Rio. Have lunch there, and then to take the train back to Cordoba.
First train from Cordoba to Posadas leaves at 7:15. Let's see if I manage to get out of bed on time, and actually carry out what I've planned.
The rest of the story will go here.
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With friends like these: Israel and the non-Jewish right
WORK IN PROGRESS
When little boys and girls have more hate and blind prejudice than reason:
Vile and nasty comments that I have encountered on The Guardian's CiF blog pages from so-called supporters of Israel.
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Viva La Quinta Brigada
The men and women of the International Brigade are to be applauded for their effort to save Europe from fascism, and to save a democratic and constitutional state from the vicious onslaught of a band of internationally backed criminal insurgents.
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Palin, Letterman and the Outrage of Moral Shysters
Me: Would you care to explain yourself?
Just to qualify the comment. Compared to killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children based on duff intelligence and lies, it was a very small error of judgement.
Now go back to your shapes, colours, sounds, lights .....
ContedeQuincy: Look at your past posts and you'll soon find out why. I really would not like to add "selective amnesia" to the list.
Me: Ok, so let's assume I have "selective amnesia". Just what are you refer
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Geoffrey Alderman and a Disservice to Fascism
Geoffrey Alderman, commenting on the comments section of an article by Seth Freedman, It's not British fascists we should fear, wrote:
geoffreyalderman
12 Jun 09, 4:07pm (about 1 hour ago)
Seth, can we at least agree that anyone who calls the BNP "fascist" does a serious disservice to the political ideology known as "fascism?"
Geoffrey Alderman
Is it me, or is this a bizarre defence of fascist ideology?
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Rapid Response Team Replies to Peter Tatchell and Fellow Travellers
You just couldn't make it up! The following is a statement issued by The Righwing Rapid Response Team in response to an alarming and malicious article published by known leftwing green guardianista Peter Tatchell, who goes by the name of "Peter Tatchell", and which was published today (or yesterday) in The Guardian. And which has been supported by a number of treasonous and traitorous Britain hating, minority supporting, LGBT loving, race denying, feminazi gits!
Today, we call upon every upst
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The Eagleton has landed .. splat!
WORK IN PROGRESS
My responses to:
God, Dawkins and tragic humanism: In a new book, Terry Eagleton argues that liberal humanism woefully underestimates the horrors of which humans are capable.
By: Mark Vernon
Published: guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 June 2009 11.00 BST
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/11/humanism-eagleton-dawkins-christianity-atheism
Or consider Christianity. Christians in history have undoubtedly perpetrated many crimes. But their most fearsome judge is the very individual they claim to follow, the man who blessed peacemakers, tended lepers and loved enemies.
Well, if you follow the Christian narrative, then yes. However, if Christianity were a criminal offence - and I am not suggesting for one minute that it should be a...
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Revisiting The Euston Manifesto
The Euston Manfesto. I never really wanted to comment on The Euston Manifesto, not wanting to legitimise a document that I considered a pretty duff manifesto.
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The extreme right are left: I read it in a blog
If I had a Euro for every time I have read the claim that right is left, then I would be seriously rich.
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Vote for Change
The following is from the home page of Vote For A Change.
The expense crisis reveals a nation governed by a political elite that has stopped listening and who are accountable to no one but their party machines. Too many MPs seem more interested in changing their homes than changing the world.
Our society faces real problems - mass unemployment and growing poverty, the threat of climate chaos and an erosion of our civil liberties to name but three. These all require effective govern
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Heidegger and the Nazis
Heidegger's fascism, his indisputable and overwhelming support of the Nazis, was linked inextricably to his philosophy. Heidegger turned to National Socialism precisely because of his philosophy, not in spite of it.
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European and Local Elections - June 2009
The election results were not entirely unexpected. So, PR represented the will of the people who actually bothered to get out and vote. Whether you like the outcome or not, and there are things that I am not particular happy about, e.g. 2 seats for the BNP, but that's a part of representative democracy.
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Seven Kids from the Valleys - Part Seven of Seven
Tell her she can't watch the news in Swahili, tell her it's bad for her eyes.
Tell her she can watch Super Ted and Fireman Sam.
Tell her she can stay up late and have cockles and dandelion and burdock for supper.
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Seven Kids from the Valleys - Part Six of Seven
Don't tell her
Don't tell her the trouble about the reservoir
Tell her it's our water, they have not right
Tell her it's not the water for Liverpool and Birmingham
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Seven Kids from the Valleys - Part Five of Seven
Tell her we won, again
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Seven Kids from the Valleys - Part Four of Seven
Tell her to be careful.
Don't tell her who used to live in this house
No but don't tell her her great great grandfather used to live in this house
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Seven Kids from the Valleys - Part One of Seven
Tell her it's the game, the only game that really matters.
Tell her it belongs to us.
Don't tell her it's only ours. We know people who say this are not right in the head.
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Seven Kids from the Valleys - Part Two of Seven
Tell her this is a photo of Uncle Jack, Auntie Maude, John and me
Tell her that her Uncle has a house in the Holy Land
Don't tell her they also have a house in Dénia, as well
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Seven Kids from the Valleys - Part Three of Seven
Don't tell her we're losing, tell her we're not winning, tell her we will win. Don't get her all in a frump
Tell its early days yet. Tell her she can write to her Gran, friends can maybe come and visit
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ZP on a mission to save GB
In the CiF section of The Guardian online, Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero took time to explain why he is backing Brown in a blog article entitled "I back Brown. And this is why"
As G20 leader the British prime minister proved his ability to deal with post-crisis policy both globally and in Europe.